How To Hack

This book isn't about programming or electronics or even social engineering.  It is about voiding warranties, overcoming the fear of the unknown, dissolving the tyranny of specialization and becoming aware of your ability to bend the things around you to your will.

Hacking has been given a bad name, but a hundred years ago just about everyone was a hacker.  These skills are slowly disappearing from the mainstream because they can't be learned by just reading a book or watching a video, they need to be experienced.  In the past these skills were passed-on from person-to-person as a matter of necessity, but now many of us grow up never experiencing the need to fix something, or with the expectation that we are just stuck with the things we can buy off-the-shelf.

"How to hack" is one path to overcoming "planned obsolecense" and going beyond the designed limitations of the things we have.  Whether that's modifying something that isn't quite what you need, breathing life back into a deceased device or conjuring something completely new, "How to hack" will help you see how to get there from here.